April 3, 1916



Mr. Earl Douglass



Jensen Utah

My Dear Douglass;-



It is some time since I have written to you but my reason for having failed to write is the fact that I have been busily engaged in preparing my annual report, which has taken up my time to the exclusion of other matters.  Your letter in which you informed me that you were engaged in road-building was duly received.  Of course the construction of roads is necessary, but I do not think that the funds of the Carnegie Museum should be very largely employed for that purpose.  I am glad to know that you have secured the assistance of the county authorities in putting in culverts on the roads you are laying out around your place:  so much is to the good perhaps.



The main object, however, for which we are keeping you in the field, you much understand, is the development of the quarry and the rapid extraction form the deposits there of such material as we need.  This is the main business of the Museum in the field, and our tenure of the right to continue the work there will depend upon the speed and the thoroughness with which the work is being done.  Judging from the tenor of your letters there has been very little accomplished at the quarry for a series of months past and while I do not wish to appear fault-